Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
As a controller player, I couldnt function without a raise macro.
I'm on mouse + kb due to my controller breaking a few days ago, but I healed just fine without ever using a raise macro.

Swiftcast only exist for raising for healers[/B], so it makes no sense to split that function into two button presses.
Not true. It certainly has the highest priority for use on Raise, but to say rez is SC's only use is not right.

Theres also the chance that you wont hit swiftcast and start hardcasting the raise, or it wont take effect before you hit raise, forcing you to hit it again. A macro eliminates this possibility.
That didn't happen to me. If anything the inability to queue inputs would cause issues.

You should also alert other healers that you're raising and who you're raising so they dont waste their own swiftcast.
There's a status that appears on the party member in the party list. I'm not gonna clog up the chatlog or make dumb "hilarious" macros because the other healers/casters can't use their eyes.

Quote Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus View Post
I find using a rez macro quite efficient, esp in circumstances where you are dodging multiple mechanics. Just because a healer uses a rez macro does not mean they are not a good or inefficient healer, that's just out of butt talk right there.
I'm just implying that good healers generally don't use rez macros because people don't die all the time when they're healing.

There are plenty of times I was able to get ppl up in the middle of back to back dodges where hitting 1 button was much more suited than 2, esp when there are multiple ppl down so your other healer knows who not to pop their swiftcast on. When 5 ppl are down in different parts of the arena and you get 1 swiftcast its a waste for both healers to use it on the same person since by the time you see the other healers raise go off, thanks to their own swiftcast, you may have spent yours needlessly. No matter how aware you are, its can make a difference between a wipe or saving the day.
Again, that's on the other healers or casters for not using their eyes and seeing which people haven't already been rezzed.

And while dodging mechanics it's hard to press 2 buttons? SC lasts for 10s, you don't need to cast Raise immediately (just within those 10s), and you can pop both SC and the rez a few seconds later while at full mobility, or still do OGCDs and instacasts without consuming the SC. I don't see the benefit of tying them together.